CultureShift: Detroiter shares life lessons from growing up in a Chinese restaurant
This week, Detroit native Curtis Chin published his new memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
"Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir" by Curtis Chin
Native Detroiter Curtis Chin is a writer, producer, director, activist, and the co-founder of the nonprofit Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
This week, Chin published his new memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” which describes his experience growing up in the 1980s as a gay Asian American in Detroit’s Cass Corridor — a majority Black area — as well as being a first-generation college student at the University of Michigan.
Chin caught up with CultureShift host Tia Graham this week to discuss the new book, his experience growing up in one of the city’s most popular Chinese restaurants, and what it’s like returning to his old stomping grounds.
Listen: Curtis Chin discusses new memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant”
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